This
document explains how, with just a single keyboard layout in Windows,
you can produce all characters essential to the correct presentation
of texts in Dutch, English,
French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.

If
your ‘Installed Services’ include English (United
States), go to step 2d.
If not, click first on any language installed, then click Add.
SelectEnglish (United States)from the list of ‘Input
languages’ (how to add an input
language)

4.
To change to US International Keyboard for general use in Windows,
revisit Regional and Languages Options > Languages >
Details (see 2a and 2b, above) and,
as Default Input Language, select English (United
States) United States-International.

Click
Apply and OK until you exit. Change
of default language is not operational until after a reboot.

The
4 highlighted keys are all called ‘dead’ because, when
pressed alone, they produce nothing. However, in combination with
a relevant second key, dead keys produce a considerable array
of characters unavailable on the usually ethnocentric standard
keyboard layouts.

To
work properly, the first three dead keys (`~, ^, " '), shown
red on yellow in the tables below, should be immediately followed
by a second key in accordance with the Simple
guide (sequential combination).

The
fourth dead key — the Alt key (a.k.a. Alt-Gr)
to the right of the spacebar — functions much like
a shift key: the second key it modifies must be pressed at the
same time. Alt-Grcombinations are shown in brown
on light blue in the tables below (simultaneous combination).